In 1974, when I was an 19-year-old college freshman at Harvard, my friend Paul Allen showed me an article in Electronics magazine announcing the new 8080 microprocessor from a young company called Intel. That was a “Wow” moment for the both of us because we knew this chip signaled the beginning of a new era where affordable, general-purpose personal computers running powerful software would change the world and we wanted to be a part of that.